I feel like it was meant to be a reply but somehow ended up as a post

It depends on what instance you signed up to. Different instances have different sign-up rules.

Yeah, it’s not curation.

EDIT: At the moment, dunno how much concern there is about things being public on the FV. It can be pretty hard for trackers to pull everything together it seems (for search engines anyway), that I suppose it’s not a major concern just yet?

It’s not a widely opposed aspect of the Fediverse currently, but if a wave of Redditors came here - given how many choose to hide their profile, many 100% would complain.

Idk when it came in. They probably announced it on their site somewhere when it came in.

Ironically enough, I’d argue the fact that public profiles are forced to be public on the Fediverse is going to be more offputting to your average user compared to the complexities of federation.

I’ve never seen such a public announcement, and I’d argue that they probably want the reverse of that. They want it because they want user history to be most available, in general.

There’s no announcement as such, but reddit users can now hide their comment history - and many of them do so now.

On one hand I’m not sure elaborating would be a good idea, on the other the broad strokes are “spin up a few instances and be a dick in various ways”. People are already blatantly doing that anyway, so it’s not really a secret.

Most overtly deliberately inflammatory instances get federated.

Federation is limited - who even federates, who defederates, any other limitations, community rules and whatever else, a bunch of stuff influences the actual content you see.

Well, yes. I’m not sure what your point is here. I’m focusing on your claim that someone malicious (a corpo) could somehow subvert the Threadiverse.

Random fediverse happenings (good reasons, bad reasons, outright technical failure) have already caused a bit of headache on their own, let alone what a motivated malicious actor could do.

I don’t see what a malicious actor could do just by spinning up an instance.

I argue that many communities fail because most community owners don’t know about federation (using tools like lemmy-federate) and don’t advertise it, and don’t maintain it.

No it doesn’t? It makes it mildly difficult by making sure any corpo, if it cared to, would need to control a significant-ish amount of the instances. There’s no clear reason to do that, which is nice, because it would be pretty hard to defend against.

How do you propose they could do that? Genuinely curious.

A corpo-instance would be defederated by everyone else.

Lemmy/Piefed is more resistant to out-of-control and deranged mods and admins though.

Given the decline in birth rates, I don’t know why you’d think it’d be necessary tbh.

Most instances don’t block other instances of note though. The biggest decision you’ll have to make here realistically is “Do I want to access hexbear and/or lemmygrad” and that’s it.

And Dbzer0 in their current block of feddit.org.

No. That user chooses to use that instead of “th”.

The top 20 posts in any community are from power users and/or mods of such community.

Power users and/or community mods tend to want the platform and their community to succeed, so are more motivated at pumping out content that otherwise wouldn’t be there.

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Nowhere on the threadiverse is large enough to support that level of interaction, unfortunately.

You can help by using [email protected] though.

Are these tagged as bots?

Lemmy.ml isn’t widely defederated to my knowledge.

I feel like your comment of (2) contradicts (3) to some degree. I agree the wider culture of lemmy is progressive/left, but that at least indirectly contradicts the prominence of racist content that you claim exists.

To be fair, people don’t undo their default upvote on their posts because of self-esteem, it’s just not noticing. You are right that a more authentic system though would simply not have any default upvotes, and additionally - not allow the OP to upvote their own posts/comments.

Pretty sure that Donald J. Musk is a Russian Z astroturfer banned from half of Lemmy with multiple accounts under different aliases.